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"Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind."
"When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way."
"The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.?"
"It's hard to win when you always lose."
"We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight."
"As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries."
"If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama."
"I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker."
"My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like"."
"Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game."
"Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread."
"Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win."
"The person who fails the most wins."
"You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training."
"In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for."
"Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient."
"You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
"You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important."
"I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'."
"I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship."
